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eating fast food is always bad for our health. home cooking fresh in season vegetables and chicken is cheaper and body nourishing. there is no excuse for eating fast food IF one eats for enjoyment AND good health.
do you think fast food is good for health? making a choice to eat fast food occasionally as a treat is one thing, but it is not a healthy choice. we make choices everyday that affect our long-term health.
do you think fast food is good for health? making a choice to eat fast food occasionally as a treat is one thing, if you like it, but it is not a healthy choice. just like many other choices we make everyday for our long-term health.
I think most of it is just fine. Additionally, there are almost always "healthy choices" or adjustments you can make to it at most FF places. But it's one of those things some people get hysterical about.
I mean, technically it can be fine... it's no worse than any other restaurants, really, if you know how to order healthier items. You can get a garden salad, small fries, and a diet soda or water. That's still way better than a "Tour of Italy" at Olive Garden!
eating fast food is always bad for our health. home cooking fresh in season vegetables and chicken is cheaper and body nourishing. there is no excuse for eating fast food IF one eats for enjoyment AND good health.
A grilled chicken breast fillet is a grilled chicken breast fillet, no matter where it's grilled. And if you live north of the Mason-Dixon line, you'd know darned well there's no such thing as "in-season" vegetables from late November til mid-April. Winter is out of season for fruits and vegetables in the north. Meanwhile down here in the south, the idea of "home cooking" is barbeque pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, pimiento cheese (shredded cheddar with pimiento peppers and mayonnaise), and ranch dressing on - pretty much everything. there's nothing nourishing or healthy about any of that, but according to you, as long as it's made in someone's residential kitchen it's nourishing?
Gimme a McDonald's cheeseburger and small fry with a bottle of water and I'll be better nourished than if I ate at Jim-bob's dining room table.
So, if I wanted to spend the money and weren't so lazy to go to McDonald's, I would easily and without guilt do the following. Purchase a quarter pounder and one of their garden salads. Toss the bun, keep the quarter pounder with it's lettuce and pickle and dump the salad on top. Squeeze a little bit of dressing on it if needed, just a small ribbon if you have to, chop it all up with a plastic knife and eat it with a plastic fork and add one of their plastic cups of ice water.
Would absolutely work for me.
Again, I would rather do the QTR pounder with cheese and fries and a coke. But....can't do it now. So that would work and that fast food would be a "go." McDonalds!
Grilled chicken would be better. But I don't know what they have on their menu nowadays.
Cooking garden fresh vegetables and lean chicken fresh with bottled mineral water is of course ideal. But even I don't do that consistently. I take vitamins to make up for lack of fresh vegetables. : )
I like to be healthy but I am not that meticulous of a person.
My point is, I wish society wouldn’t shame people so much for the kinds of foods they like. You can eat anything and have it as part of a balanced diet, it’s just about moderation.
Thoughts?
Totally agree.
People can eat what they want.
Your narrow waist and lean figure are the exception not the norm in the US today (and other countries).
Ultra-processed foods (fast food) can indeed kill regular eaters of it over the decades, regardless of weight.
The fatter you are, the generally worse your health and the shorter your life span. That's not really debatable.
And fast food (being heavily processed, full of sugar, etc.) is often a big contributor to both weight and other health problems.
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